Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study, 1993 (ICPSR 6577)

Citation

Wechsler, Henry. Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study, 1993. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-11-14. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06577.v3

Summary

This survey focused on alcohol use and alcohol problems
among undergraduate college students. The survey collected information
on students' use of alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drugs, views on
campus alcohol policies and student alcohol use, reasons for drinking
alcohol and reasons for not drinking or limiting drinking, and
personal difficulties caused by drinking problems (e.g., missed
classes, injury, and trouble with police). Additional topics covered
by the survey include overall health status, daily activities,
satisfaction with education being received, grade-point average,
living arrangements, social life, sexual activity, use of condoms
during sexual intercourse, date rape, drunk driving, and attendance in
meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous, Alanon, Adult Children of
Alcoholics, and Narcotics Anonymous. Background variables include age,
height, weight, sex, marital status, religion, mother's and father's
education, mother's and father's drinking habits, race, and Hispanic
origin.

Citation

Wechsler, Henry. Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol Study, 1993. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2005-11-14. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR06577.v3

Geographic Coverage

Restrictions

As explained in the ICPSR Processing Note in the codebook, variables COLL_ID (college ID number), STUDY_ID (unique respondent identifier), and SERIAL (sequence number within college) are restricted from general dissemination for reasons of confidentiality. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete an Agreement for the Use of Confidential Data, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research. Apply for access to these data through the ICPSR restricted data contract portal, which can be accessed via the study home page.

Sample

A random sample of students in 140 schools was selected
using probability proportionate to size sampling of colleges and
universities. However, the data only include the 119 schools in the
analytic sample of the 2001 round of the Harvard School of Public
Health College Alcohol Study (ICPSR 4291). Of the 120 schools surveyed
for the 2001 round, 119 met the response rate cutoff for inclusion in
that year's analytical sample. The last ICPSR version of this study
(i.e., the second version of ICPSR 6577) only included the 119 schools
of the 1999 analytical sample (ICPSR 3818), which were slightly
different from the 119 schools in the 2001 analytical sample. In 1999,
119 of the 128 schools surveyed met the response rate cutoff for
inclusion in the 1999 analytical sample.

Universe

Full-time undergraduate students enrolled in four-year
colleges or universities in the United States.

Data Source

mailback questionnaires

Data Type(s)

Original Release Date

1996-10-01

Version Date

2005-11-14

Version History

2005-11-14. The study has been updated with revised
data supplied by the principal investigator to allow for comparable
analyses with the Harvard School of Public Health College Alcohol
Study, 2001 (ICPSR 4291). This version of the data comprises the same
119 schools in the ICPSR 4291 data. Six schools in the previous
version were dropped, six schools not in the previous version were
added, and seven variables (MMDD, SERIAL, NEWC19_A, NEWC19_B,
NEWC19_C, NEWC19_D, and WAVE) were added. In addition, ICPSR revised
the documentation accordingly and added a SAS setup file to the
collection. The SAS setup includes the PROC FORMAT statements from the
previous version.

2003-12-02 The principal investigator supplied a
revised data file in which the number of colleges was reduced from 140
to 119 (2,189 cases were dropped). Some variables were removed, others
were renamed, and new variables, including a weight variable, were
added. In addition, ICPSR has identified 11 variables with one or
more revised values (variables DRIVE, NUMPROB, PROBGULP, PROB5,
PERSIST, NOBINGE, UPTAKE, GIVEUP, CONTBING, ANYDRUG1, and ANYDRUG2).
The documentation and other supporting files were revised
accordingly.

Notes

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